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The appearance of the car is really important. If it looked too fun, like a Ferrari, some may think it's not safe. It reminds me of "helper" robots in movies ab
by dopamean 12y ago
The appearance of the car is really important. If it looked too fun, like a Ferrari, some may think it's not safe. It reminds me of "helper" robots in movies about the future. They always have such unintimidating appearances. This car appears to be attempting the same thing and I'm ok with it.
- jastanton 12y agosure appearance can convince a person of a well designed product. But I prefer, a well designed product, especially when my life is on the line over appearence. Tesla may come out with a super shiny beautiful self-driving car, but I will probably go with a dorky Google car if it has X miles (where X is a large impressive number) under its belt.
- derefr 12y agoIn fact, now that you mention it, this is pretty much Baymax-the-Car. It just needs to puff up when it accidentally drives into a lake.
- krapp 12y agoI have to be honest - the last thing I think of when I look at it is "safe." Maybe that's just because I'm an American and feel the need to put as much iron between me and everyone else as I can. It's cute, and non-threatening looking, and probably the right design for what it is, but people are still going to look at it and think "this is going to get destroyed if a real car hits it."
- eru 12y agoThere are (at least) two kinds of people Google needs to convince. First, people who will sit in a self-driving car; and that's already done. Second, people who share the road with a self-driving car. You are right `unthreatening' is the better word than the ambiguous `safe' here. PS I think you are too American there. They don't drive tanks on the road in every country. But I see your concern.
- krapp 12y agoFair enough.